The purpose of the funeral oration is not only to respect the departed, but also to instill the citizens' national pride and a passion to fight for Athens.
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
Antony was appealing to the emotions of the mob; Brutus was appealing to their intelligence. Antony knew that the kind of rabble-rousing he had in mind would be effective in making them do crazy things (like killing Cinna the poet), and allowing him to eventually become dictator. Politically, it works; it succeeded in doing all that Antony wanted. But does that make it better? Brutus's argument was more intellectually satisfying, more grounded in morality and good governance. It was less effective but more right.
Antony, in his funeral oration for Caesar, repeated the phrase, "Brutus said he (meaning Caesar) was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man," in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Because he had been chosen to deliver the funeral oration as a consul for a consul, a friend for a friend and a Kinsman for a Kinsman. Being related to Caesar through the mother .
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Funeral Oration.
The purpose of the funeral oration is not only to respect the departed, but also to instill the citizens' national pride and a passion to fight for Athens.
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Thucydides
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Pericles .
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
Its a famous quote from Pericles' Funeral Oration
In the individual participation in the democracy
Pericles' funeral oration and Demosthenes' Philippics are famous pieces of oratory. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is another example of a famous speech.